Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction.

Mr. Harris' writing has been published in over fifteen languages. He and his work have been discussed in Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, Scientific American, Nature, Rolling Stone, and many other journals. His writing has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere.

Mr. Harris is a Co-Founder and CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.

On Friday's "Overtime," the internet only portion of HBO's "Real Time," guests Ann Coulter and Ben Affleck and host Bill Maher, along with others on the panel, argued over the events and warnings leading up to 9/11/2011.

Bill Maher: Be More Cynical is Bill Maher's fifth HBO special, filmed in the summer of 2000 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, months before the 2000 US presidential election.

Topics that he covered during his performance included religion, attack ads, candidates Al Gore, John McCain, and George W. Bush (about whom he states, "I don't like this little prick, I gotta be honest, drugs, gun control, and outgoing President Bill Clinton.

It was released on DVD on April 5, 2005 and has a runtime of approximately 60 minutes.

most of us know that MITT ROMNEY is a deranged lunatic set on re-implementing george w bush's fascist ways .. . but he is shielded by a dying TELEVISION MEDIA set on preserving the STATUS QUO where TV trumps INTERNET and DUOPOLY politics is GOLDEN ! !! yes, BARACK OBAMA will likely be the lesser of evils for the common AMERICAN . .. and for many of america's foreign partners .. . but might be worth mentioning that roseanne barr, gary johnson &others; are alternatives on the ballot!! ! must we always select between dog crap and cat puke!? ! i hope NOT!!! ! ! shame on YOU, television media, for even SUGGESTING republicans are viable national candidates !! haven't we had enough inside dealings, unlawful terror, & incompetent wankers!? !! !